Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century

   • Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby

   Pages 1-16Open Access

3. ‘The Holy War Against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890–1921

   • Alice Mauger

   Pages 17-52Open Access

4. Social Stigma, Stress and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905–1965

   • Rachel Hewitt

   Pages 53-72Open Access

5. Planning for the Future: Special Education and the Creation of ‘Healthy Minds’

   • Steven J. Taylor

   Pages 73-93Open Access

6. Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability

   • Jan Walmsley

   Pages 95-111Open Access

7. Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945–1981

   • Andy Holroyde

   Pages 113-135Open Access

8. Autism in the Twentieth Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition

   • Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Nikki Kiyimba

   Pages 137-165Open Access

9. Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement

   • Erika Dyck, Ginny Russell

   Pages 167-187Open Access

10. The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960–1980

    • Alice Brumby

    Pages 189-209Open Access

11. ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900–1950

    • Imogen Wiltshire

    Pages 211-238Open Access

12. The Myth of Dream-Hacking and ‘Inner Space’ in Science Fiction, 1948–2010

    • Rob Mayo

    Pages 239-265Open Access

13. Correction to: Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

    • Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby

    Pages C1-C1Open Access

14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-274

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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter. 

This book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

• Mental wellbeing
• Everyday life
• Institutional care
• Spatial turn
• Deinstitutionalisation
• Psychiatry
• Modernity
• Learning disabilities
• Neurodiversity
• Education
• Visual arts
• Open Access Chapters
• Open Access

“I nonetheless commend the volume and would encourage readers to take time to engage with all the chapters. Each has real merit, and collectively they add up to more than the sum of their parts.” (Pamela L. Dale, H-Net Reviews Humanities and Social Sciences, networks.h-net.org, October, 2020) “A fresh examination of mental health and illness that moves well beyond the tired dichotomy of triumph or travesty to present nuanced case studies of care. The well-researched chapters reflect sensitivity to social context, evolving nomenclature, and policies that addressed treatment, destigmatization, and prevention, through education, the arts, and popular media, thereby extending the concept of psychiatric care from individuals to populations.” (Jacalyn Duffin, Professor Emerita, Queen's University, Canada)

• School of History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  Steven J. Taylor

• School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy, York St John University, York, UK

  Alice Brumby

Steven J. Taylor is a Wellcome Trust ISSF Early Career Fellow in the History of Poverty and Medicine at the University of Leicester, UK. His research explores ideas and constructions of childhood health, lay and professional diagnoses, ability and disability, and institutional care. His first monograph, Beyond the Asylum: Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.  

Alice Brumby is a Lecturer at York St John University, UK. Her research interests focus upon twentieth century mental health care and the role of the community, families and patients in accessing care and treatment. She has published work in First World War Studies and History Today amongst other publications.